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Normalcy Bias – A Latent Hazard
Cavalier and dismissive behaviour in the face of overwhelming evidence of impending danger is something which characteristically emerges from ‘normalcy bias’ (defined as the "tendency to underestimate the possibility of disaster and believe that life will continue as normal, even in the face of significant threats or crises").
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January 12, 2026 at 7:13 PM
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Toward a New Theory of Value (and Meaning): Living Systems as Generative
The bounty brought by rainfall, fertile soil, and biodiversity cannot truly be expressed through quantitative proxies, prices, algorithms, or markets because this “wealth” doesn’t exist in static, objectified forms or essentialist identities
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January 12, 2026 at 4:51 PM
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Venezuela and Greenland: ‘Smash-and-grab’ diplomacy in the age of scarcity
As the natural resources that the modern world depends on become more and more scarce, countries will more and more resort to openly violent methods to secure access to those resources.
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January 11, 2026 at 7:12 PM
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The Language of Sustainability & the Power of Words
And you, fellow reader, what other words would you delete or add to sustain this conversation — and more importantly, the very cause for which it stands?
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January 9, 2026 at 10:36 PM
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Coming Together in the Great Turning: Excerpt
Realizing a vision of the Beloved Community requires that we practice beloved community daily, contributing to greater safety, dignity, and belonging for everyone.
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January 9, 2026 at 7:12 PM
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Commoning as Relational Provisioning & Governance
In the face of capitalist economics and states intent on asserting their dominance and control, commoners have a mindset that is more expansive, experimental, self-reliant and localist than the market/state dares to imagine.
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January 9, 2026 at 4:52 PM
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Ireland | Feeding Ourselves, breaking new ground for the local food movement
Farmers, following a bodhrán deftly drummed by Talamh Beo’s Fergal Anderson, brought themselves and their produce from their farms, telling a little of their stories of who they are, what they do, and how they do it. They stood front and centre, and it centred us too.
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January 9, 2026 at 2:57 AM
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How We’ve ‘Drugified’ Our Entire Existence: Dopamine & Addiction In the Digital Age
In this episode, Nate is joined by New York Times bestselling author and professor of psychiatry,  Anna Lembke, to explore how modern society has “drugified” our lived experience through digital media, processed foods, and instant gratification, resulting in an environment that propagates addiction.
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January 8, 2026 at 10:36 PM
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Has green energy saved us YET??

In this special two-part podcast series, the hosts of Crazy Town and Human Nature Odyssey come together to explore what a livable future may look like in 2126.

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January 8, 2026 at 10:19 PM
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Bioregionalism, Commoning, and Relationalized Finance
Bioregionalism offers a practical, politically accessible space for addressing climate change, social inequality, the eclipse of democracy, out-of-control oligarchs, and capitalist growth. 
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January 8, 2026 at 7:13 PM
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A political strategy for degrowth
In all cases, a political strategy for a mass party must emerge from the mass of people that it is supposed to serve.
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January 8, 2026 at 4:51 PM
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The Challenges and Socio-Ecological Importance of Delimiting Colombia’s Wetlands
Artisanal fishermen are advocating for the demarcation of the ciénagas – the natural environment which feeds them, provides them protection from flooding in the rainy seasons and whose amphibious shores are where they cultivate seasonal crops.
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January 8, 2026 at 2:57 AM
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Ditching Dualism #7: Objections
Why is strict materialism a hard sell for many in our dualist-dominated culture?
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January 7, 2026 at 10:36 PM
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Review: The Documerica Project (documentary review)
This is an engaging, visually arresting film that skillfully interweaves archival imagery, social commentary, interviews and verité footage. It serves both as a record of a past moment and a call to reflect on the unfinished work of environmental stewardship.
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January 7, 2026 at 7:12 PM
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The Securitization of Minerals in the EU: Why Europe is Not Immune to the Resource Curse
This article examines how access to mineral raw materials in the EU has been transformed through a process of securitization over the last two decades. What was once mainly a matter of economic policy and trade has been reframed—through narratives constructed by industrial lobbies and political allies—as an existential issue for European security and survival.
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January 7, 2026 at 4:51 PM
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World on the Brink: Will History Bring Us Full Circle?
Each New Year prompts us to think about hope. As we enter 2026, how might we think about our prospects for hope?
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January 7, 2026 at 2:56 AM
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Growing the Nourishment We Seek
The garden is a profoundly simple setting for reconnecting with the earth, with one another, and with ourselves.
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January 6, 2026 at 10:37 PM
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The Western Mythos – Our Monster’s Spawn: Part I
Yes, the West has been subjected to extensive critique. But I will show that such critiques rarely reach its core nature and are more often absorbed, neutralized, and ultimately survived by the system itself.
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January 6, 2026 at 7:12 PM
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Rising to the Challenge of the Sociopolitical-Environmental-Economic Polycrisis
None of us gets to choose the era we live through or to control a whole lot about the world we live in. But we should strive to rise to the challenge of the situation we are confronted with, by doing what we can to make our communities, our country, and our world as livable (and worth living in) as we can.
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January 6, 2026 at 4:52 PM
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The Obscenities of Inequality: Trading Game, by Gary Stevenson
The link between income inequality and democratic erosion has been well established but little policy action taken to address it. Fortunately. Gary Stevenson has thought a lot about what’s more important than the few winning, and is among those doing something about the gap.
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January 5, 2026 at 7:12 PM
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Weak signals of the Venezuela war
Like Russia’s frontline blood banks, the Venezuelan bond trade signalled that the preceding furore was headed in a specific direction. And in the increasingly chaotic, ill-defined mess of multipolar politics and climate chaos, reliably finding which ‘weak signals’ matter—and which signals are just noise—will be vital for navigating what comes next.
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January 5, 2026 at 4:51 PM
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Autonomous vehicles: Is necessity really the mother of invention?
What "necessity" is really driving the autonomous vehicle push?
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January 4, 2026 at 7:12 PM
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Ditching Dualism #6: Maybe Monism?
The idea that we are stardust, and made of the same stuff that all the plants, animals, and Earth itself contain is a very unifying truth. Everybody plays by the same rules.
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December 31, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Behavioral Thermodynamics Part 1: Beyond the 4th Law?
In this week’s Frankly, Nate takes thermodynamics out of the physics classroom, utilizing its principles to explain the invisible forces behind growth, competition, and complexity in our world.
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December 30, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Managing Water Differently: Algeria Facing Hydrological Extremes
What if, in Algeria, water were no longer seen solely as a scarce resource to exploit or a threat to control, but as an ecological and economic capital to preserve and develop?
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December 30, 2025 at 4:51 PM